Between Terror and Freedom : Philosophy, Politics, and Fiction Speak of Modernity

Goi, Simona (EDT)/ Dolan, Frederick M. (EDT)

Lexington Books（2006/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 404 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780739111840
• DDC分類 809.3

Full Description

In this volume, Simona Goi and Frederick M. Dolan gather stimulating arguments for the indispensability of fiction—including poetry, drama, and film—as irreplaceable sites for wrestling with nature, meaning , shortcomings, and the future of modern politics. Between Terror and Freedom brings to the surface an understanding of modernity as a multifaceted and dynamic narrative as it relates to politics, philosophy, and fiction. Collecting essays across fields, Goi and Dolan challenge strict disciplinary boundaries. This is not meant to be read as another contribution to the debate of whether literature is, can, or should be political. Between Terror and Freedom instead reveals how literature illuminates and expands our understanding of philosophical and political questions. Political theorists, philosophers, cultural scholars, and rhetoricians offer a fresh perspective on the questions of our age and the paradoxes of modernity when they read literature.

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 After God and Foundations: Pessimism, Worldliness, and Transcendence
Chapter 3 Thinking and Poetry: Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger
Chapter 4 "Phantom Wisdom:" Kant's Transcendental Sophistry
Chapter 5 Cervantes as Educator: Don Quixote and the Practice of Pessimism
Part 6 Re-imaging thie Polis: Aesthetics, Freedom, Corruption, and the Law
Chapter 7 Albert Camus on Tragedy and the Ambiguity of Politics
Chapter 8 Stirring Up of Passion: Must We Fear an Aesthetic Polics?
Chapter 9 On the "Terror" of Polis Freedom: From Martin Heidegger to Jan Patocka and the Czech Velvet Revolution
Chapter 10 Theodicies of Corruption
Chapter 11 Despotic Observation: Montesquieu on the Sociology of Law
Part 12 Politics Amidst Ordinary Life: Freedom, Nature, and Necessity
Chapter 13 Food and Freedom in The Flounder
Chapter 14 "O Happy Living Things": Frankenfoods and the Bounds of Wordsworthian Natural Piety
Chapter 15 Against Heroes: Arendt and McCarthy on the Social
Part 16 Writing Modernity: Text and Context
Chapter 17 "A Superior Disorder": The Writing, Editing, and Censorship of Madame Bovary
Chapter 18 "Written and Unwritten America: Roth on Reacing, Politics, and Theory"